The Springs villa steam room with a contoured mosaic bench and concealed lighting

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The Springs Villas, Dubai — Private Steam Room

Dubai · United Arab Emirates

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Sauna Dekor Spa Solutions — designing, manufacturing and installing saunas, steam rooms, hammams and pools since 1987, in our own facility in İkitelli OSB, Istanbul.

A private villa steam room at The Springs, Dubai — bronze glass mosaic, contoured heated bench, concealed lighting. Delivered 2024 by Sauna Dekor.

Steam room

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From the project

Bronze mosaic steam room at The Springs villas seen along the bench — Steam room

The Springs villa steam room showing the mosaic bench, hand shower and LED strip — Steam room

Corner of The Springs villa steam room with a mosaic bench lit from below — Steam room

Bronze mosaic steam room at The Springs villas with a shower fitting and heated bench — Steam room

[ The build ]

A private villa steam room at The Springs, Dubai

Sauna Dekor is a sauna, hammam and spa manufacturer and turnkey contractor, founded in Istanbul in 1987 and now in its 40th year, with work delivered in 41+ countries by a team of 19 people. This project is a private villa at The Springs, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where we designed and built a single steam room, completed in 2024. For other villas and hotels in the UAE, see our page as a steam room contractor in Dubai.

Project facts: Delivered 2024 · The Springs, Dubai, UAE · Scope: steam room · Equipment: Condair steam generator · Last updated: 6 November 2026

What was built

One wet-heat room, completed in 2024 and clad in bronze-champagne glass mosaic across 3 surfaces: walls, bench and ceiling. The bench is contoured and heated, lit from underneath by a concealed LED strip so the seat appears to float. A hand shower is fitted inside the enclosure for rinsing down. It is a compact, single-room installation that fits into a villa’s existing wet zone rather than a dedicated wellness floor.

The technical decisions behind it

Generator sizing against mosaic

Glass mosaic on a rendered core is a heavy thermal mass, which is why a small room can need a generator that looks oversized on a volume calculation. For this 2024 room the Condair generator was sized for the enclosed volume first, then upsized for the surface build-up, because the first minutes of output go into warming the mosaic and render before the air begins to saturate.

A generator picked from a volume table alone gives a room that takes far too long to become usable and never holds a steady cloud.

Steam inlet placement

The steam head is set low, away from the bench, behind a guard. The plume leaves the head much hotter than the room it is filling, so its position determines where the enclosure is uncomfortable. In a compact room there is little margin, which is why the inlet position is fixed at design stage and not adjusted once the mosaic is laid.

The ceiling has to fall

The mosaic ceiling is laid to a fall so condensate runs to the perimeter and down the wall. It is 1 of 2 surfaces in this room built with a fall; the other is the bench seat. A flat ceiling in a saturated room drips onto whoever is sitting below it, and there is no ventilation strategy that corrects a flat ceiling after the fact.

Tanking, then mosaic

The build-up is an insulated core board, a bonded waterproofing membrane across floor, walls, bench and ceiling with banded internal corners, then adhesive and a grout rated for continuous wet heat. Grout is a wearing surface, not a barrier. Every penetration — hand shower, steam inlet, control, LED channel, drain — has a sealed collar formed as part of the membrane rather than drilled through it afterwards.

The lit bench is a drainage detail

Lighting a bench from below looks like a decorative decision, but it forces 2 engineering details. The bench has to be a formed, tanked element with a fall on its seating face, and it needs a clear shadow gap to the floor, so condensate leaves the seat instead of collecting under it. The LED channel sits in the dry side of that gap, with its driver outside the enclosure.

Extract and drying

Extract runs on a timer after every session. A villa steam room that is switched off wet is where grout failure and staining start; the run-on cycle is not a comfort feature, it is the maintenance strategy.

Door and enclosure

The door does 2 jobs. It is a vapour-tight glazed door, so the steam stays inside the enclosure, and it has a drip channel at the head, so water that condenses on the inside face is returned to the enclosure rather than running out onto the bathroom floor beyond.

What the site required

A villa in an established Dubai community means working inside a house that is finished, occupied and served by MEP designed for an ordinary bathroom. 3 constraints shaped this room: the ceiling void left after the fall was formed, the drainage invert inside the enclosure, and the electrical capacity on the existing distribution board. All 3 are surveyed before the room is drawn, because each can change the generator selection or the enclosure size.

Related capability

See our steam room page for the room type built here, hammam for the marble equivalent, sauna for the dry-heat counterpart and shower systems for the rinse-down stage. A later room in the same full-mosaic idiom is the Bodrum Polimeks Erraertfarm steam room in Türkiye (2026), with a barrel-vault ceiling and an LED-lit curved bench.

Our Dubai page sets out how we deliver in the UAE.

Frequently asked questions

How is a steam generator sized for a private villa?

Against the room’s volume first, then upsized for the surface build-up. A mosaic room on a rendered core carries far more thermal mass than a painted one of the same size, and that mass has to be warmed before the air will hold a stable cloud.

Why is a steam room bench contoured?

Two reasons. Comfort, because a bather sits for longer in a saturated room than in a dry one, and drainage — a contoured bench with a fall sheds condensate to the floor rather than pooling it where somebody is sitting.

Can a steam room go into an existing villa bathroom?

Often yes, but it is not a matter of adding a generator and a door. The enclosure needs its own insulated, fully tanked build-up, a ceiling laid to a fall, a vapour-tight door, drainage inside the enclosure and dedicated extract. A steam room built inside an ordinary tiled bathroom will drive moisture into the surrounding construction.

What grout is used in a mosaic steam room?

A grout rated for continuous wet heat — in practice an epoxy or a high-performance cementitious system — over a bonded waterproofing membrane. The grout is a wearing surface, not the waterproofing; anything relying on grout to keep water out will fail.

Who built the steam room at The Springs?

Sauna Dekor, a sauna, hammam and spa manufacturer and turnkey contractor founded in Istanbul in 1987, with a team of 19 people. We designed and built this single steam room in a private villa at The Springs, Dubai, and completed it in 2024.

Does Sauna Dekor manufacture the steam generator?

No. The steam generator in this room is made by Condair; we size and install it, and its CE and other approvals belong to Condair. Our own certification is TS EN ISO 9001:2015 quality management, covering sauna and spa product manufacturing and after-sales service.

Sources

Our own company certification is TS EN ISO 9001:2015 quality management, issued against a scope of sauna and spa product manufacturing and after-sales service. The equipment we install — heaters, steam generators, controls — carries its own CE / EN 60335, TÜV, GS and comparable approvals from its manufacturers, such as EOS, Sentiotec and Condair. We do not present those supplier approvals as our own.